April 4: Selling capitalism at home and abroad continued

Required reading:

Questions to consider from the reading:  Discuss the most significant points you drew from the text and my discussion of how the cold war affected the Third World and the policies of the U.S.. What was the U.S. fighting in Iran and Guatemala? What questions or objections do you have about this interpretation?  What was the military industrial complex, and why did Eisenhower warn about its effects? Who were the Beatniks and what is Ginzberg talking about in the poem Howl?     

 

 

 

Recommended documents:

Military spending and concerns:

·         Military Industrial Complex” complete speech by Eisenhower

·         Universal Declaration of Human Rights  http://www.1944.org/human-rights.htm

·         Documents on the Cold War see right side of opening page for various links.

·         Map of Europe at the Start of the Cold War

·         Truman Doctrine  -origins and response by Soviet Union

·         How the Cold War Worked –Noam Chomsky

 

Iran

·         Iran, 1953 – excerpt from Bill Blum’s Killing Hope, on the CIA in Iran, 1953; excerpt is not footnoted, but original is well- evidenced

·         The recently released documents on the CIA in Iran, 1953 http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB28/index.html Most documents were destroyed, but enough survives to piece together the story. If you browse through these, you will find that the key criticism is that psychological forces were not employed strongly enough to control the U.S. media. See Section X, what was learned from the

·         Browse through an article planted by the CIA in the New York Times about the ousting of Mossedeq in 1953 (see my outline for background) http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/mideast/082053iran-army.html

·         The Subversion of Undesireable Governments  both Iran and Guatemala covered  as well as numerous others, in capsule fashion—excerpt from Richard Barnet, Intervention and Revolution: The U.S. in the Third World

 

Guatemala

·         Guatemala, 1954  excerpt from Bill Blum’s Killing Hope, on the CIA and overthrow of Arbenz; excerpt is not footnoted, but original is well evidenced

·         Guatemala documentation project –materials that have confirmed the complicity of the U.S. with the brutal regime established in 1954.

·         CIA and Guatemala/Assassinations: assassination as a strategy for control – overthrowing democratic leaders by assassination

·         U.S. policy in Guatemala: Killing Fields

·         Guatemala, 1962-1980s –what happened in the aftermath of the coup

·         CIA and Guatemala/Assassinations: assassination as a strategy for control – overthrowing democratic leaders by assassination

 

·         U.S. Plans for the postwar during World War II—constructing the postwar capitalist system—exploitation of the 3rd world

·         NSC-68 – the secret document of plans to confront the Soviet Union and build military funding

·         U.S. military spending during the Cold war

·         US/CIA manipulations of Italy’s postwar elections, 1948 http://members.aol.com/bblum6/italy1.htm

·         The Marshall Plan as Cold War Policy

·         More on the context of George Kennan’s comments (see my outline)  U.S. global role—revisiting imperialism in the Philippines

·         The CIA in Indonesia: bloody coups and dictators http://members.aol.com/bblum6/indo1.htm

·         Indonesian Massacres and the CIA

·         U.S. secrecy and lies: a brief history of how historians have discovered some of the real history of U.S. foreign policy, and the problems with a “secret” foreign policy  http://fpif.org/briefs/vol5/v5n24secrets_body.html

·         U.S. vs USSR nuclear capacity, 1945-1996 -

·         20 mishaps that might have sparked a nuclear war

·         United States Secretly Deployed Nuclear Bombs In 27 Countries and Territories During Cold War

·         50 facts about nuclear weapons